First Aid for Building and Construction Industry

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A great course and very informative. I took all the managers from Affleck Property Services on the course and found it extremely useful, teambuilding and informative. Emma was great and I can highly recommend it to everyone.
Oscar Sangster

Affleck Property Services

I thought the first aid course was excellent. Very good for any site worker and especially Site Managers. The course was very enjoyable and great to do the course is warm, airy and comfortable surroundings with creature comforts to hand.

I think you should approach the Health and Safety Executive and suggest that all building trades should do the EFA course as part of their training and qualifications for being able to work on a construction site.

Ian de Haan

Debatsford Developments Ltd

First Aid for Life is an Award Winning fully regulated First Aid Training provider, our trainers are highly experienced medical and emergency services professionals who will tailor the training to your needs.

We specialise in teaching First Aid to those in the building and construction industry and empowering you with the skills to help in a medical emergency at work. We routinely work with builders, scaffolders, surveyors, and many more individuals and organisations. We receive great feedback on the professional but relaxed approach of our trainers and everyone leaves feeling far more confident that they would be able to help in an emergency situation.

Our Emergency First Aid at Work courses cover the full HSE syllabus and we also include Heart Attacks, Head and Spinal Injuries and Asthma and ensure they are relevant to the needs of the Construction Industry. If there are a group of you we would be delighted to come and run a one day EFAW, 3 day FAW or 2 day re-qualification for you at your premises.

Our online first aid courses are ideal as pre-learning for people with English as a Second Language or to fulfil the requirements as an Appointed Person for First Aid.

  • Construction workers and  building companies responsible for First Aid cover for Businesses of up to 50 employees or larger or complex risk businesses looking to increase support for qualified FAW staff
  • Anyone requiring a regulated First Aid training qualification
  • Admin staff and professional tradespeople.

Every course is tailored to the needs of those attending – please let us know if there are particular areas you need us to cover.

By the end of the course you will have learnt:

  • Prioritising injuries and action in an emergency.
  • How to provide immediate medical care in an emergency.
  • How to assess if someone is unconscious, whether or not they are breathing and how and when to put them into the recovery position or start CPR.
  • We will cover common accidents and injuries relevant to your industry and empower you with the skills and confidence to provide an immediate and appropriate first aid response.
  • Baby first aid and Child First Aid are included and we will always tailor the course to the requirements of your work.
  • Managing an incident
  • Priorities of First Aid
  • Treatment of an unconscious adult, baby and child who is breathing – recovery position
  • Treatment of an unconscious adult, baby or child who is not breathing – CPR
  • Importance of a defibrillator and how to use an AED*
  • Heart Attack and Angina*
  • Stroke
  • Choking
  • Shock
  • Bleeding – grazes, splinters, embedded objects, amputated parts, knocked out teeth, mouth injury, eye injury, bruising, nose bleeds, objects in eyes, ears, nose…
  • Burns and scalds
  • Head injuries, concussion, compression & skull fracture *
  • Spinal injuries*
  • Breaks, soft tissue injuries & dislocations *
  • Anaphylactic shock and acute allergic reaction
  • Fitting and seizures
  • First Aid Kits
  • The aftermath, accident forms…

* Head and spinal injuries, Heart Attacks, breaks & soft tissue injuries are not included within the HSE first aid syllabus but are incorporated into our course. Extra time is added to include these additional topics.

One day – 6 hours.

Continuous assessment by trainer, practical assessments to cover wound management, care of an unconscious casualty, CPR and a multiple choice paper.

Ofqual Approved Certification through Qualsafe Awards is valid for 3 years.

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First Aid at Work (FAW) Regulated Blended Learning

The First Aid at Work (FAW) course is fully regulated through Qualsafe Awards, Ofqual and the RQF framework. Our course uniquely covers Adult and Child First Aid in addition to the full HSE syllabus.

First Aid for Builders and Construction industry

Group Courses

For group courses: we would be delighted to run a specific First Aid course at a time and place to suit you and at special group rates, tailored to your specific needs. We also offer First Aid at Work (FAW) re-qualification courses (2 day) or the full 3 day FAW courses.

Online Course

In addition to our practical courses, we run Online First Aid courses (through our sister company, www.onlinefirstaid.com) where you can learn vital skills and extend your first aid knowledge from your smart phone and mobile devices in your own time. These are ideal for people with English as a second language (ESOL) as they provide superb pre-learning in a clear and easy manner to enable you to fully understand and pass the regulated practical course.

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